From the author of the international bestsellerย On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitlerโs and Stalinโsย politics of massย killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.
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Americans call the Secondย World War โthe Good War.โ But before it even began, Americaโs ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensโand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At warโs end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind theย Ironย Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.ย
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Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive,ย Bloodlandsย is a newย kind of Europeanย history, presentingย the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a singleย story.ย With a newย afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy,ย Bloodlandsย is required reading for anyoneย seekingย to understand the central tragedy of modern historyย andย itsย meaningย today.ย